GENAUNI
Eth.
GENAUNI (Hor.; Eth.
Γεναῦνοι, Strab.) or GENAUNES (Plin.), a fierce and warlike tribe (implacidum genus) of Rhaetia, subdued by Tiberius and Drusus in the reign of Augustus. They lay between the lakes
Magqgiore and
Como in the modern
Valle di Non. (Hor. 4.14. 10;
Strab. iv. p.206;
Plin. Nat. 3.20. s. 24.)
It has been conjectured that, instead of
Βενλαῦνοι in Ptolemy (
2.13.1), we ought to read
Γεναῦνοι; and in Florus (
4.12), instead of “Breunos, Senones,” we ought to read “Breunos, Genaunos.” (Forbiger,
Geographic, vol. iii. p. 444.)